1 Corinthians 7?

Thought-provoking (for me, dunno about you. go read! –>) post on marriage over at Boundless Line.

“I’ve wrestled with 1 Corinthians 7 for years. It’s not a simple chapter. Paul affirms both married and single states; he encourages people to get married, he encourages people to stay single. He sometimes offers commands and sometimes offers concessions. Sometimes it appears that he’s giving his own personal opinion, while other times it seems he’s providing counsel directly from the Lord.

… this really is a complex chapter, and the tendency is to pick one verse out of it to defend our current lifestyle.

Let’s not do that, OK? Let’s wrestle with Paul’s elegant affirmation of certain instances of marriage, of singleness, and of delay of marriage. And reject arguments in favor of inappropriate marriage, undue singleness, and irresponsible delay of marriage.”

Undue singleness! Irresponsible delay of marriage! Hahahaha! OOPS. I think I’m not old enough to irresponsibly delay marrying (or be unduly single for that matter), but am guilty of possibly being on that track. Let me off the train!

To write love on her arms.

Last night I had a dream that made me go “dayum, it wasn’t real?!?! oh. …dayum.” in the morning. It was even cooler than my Star Wars and bending-the-space-time-continuum-to-travel-between-inter-galatic-portals dreams.

Anyhoo that was totally random and moving on, Switchfoot’s ‘Up In Arms’ American tour has started.

S’pity they’re not coming here. (Zhen and pet, you should totally go if they’re coming to your town.)

The ‘To Write Love On Her Arms’ movement is one I really support, not because it’s hip or cool, but because it hits so close to home, I guess. Check it out if you don’t already know what it’s about. I was moved to tears when I first read Renee’s story.

“We often ask God to show up.
We pray prayers of rescue.
Perhaps God would ask us to be that rescue,
to be His body, to move for things that matter.

I might be simple but more and more,
I believe that God works in love,
speaks in love,
is revealed in our love.
We are only asked to love, to offer love to the many hopeless.”

Husbandry

For the brothers who have decided/will decide to give up the Peter Pan Syndrome in exchange for c-o-m-m-i-t-m-e-n-t: Marriage prep 101 (whether you’ve met her or not)

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